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...Last year's Wonderland was about doctors-an old medical megalomaniac and his foster son. The new novel, her sixth, concerns lawyers. Marvin Howe is a Nietzschean criminal lawyer-vainglorious, corrupt, wondrously successful, obsessed with his control over people. His opposite number is less obviously a monster. Jack Morrissey defends social outcasts and agitators, the teeming poor of Detroit. He lives simply, but is just as bewitched by power as Howe...
...legality and morality. The second difficulty is less understandable in so experienced a writer. The two lawyers, as well as the rest of the people in this dense work, are seen in relation to Elena Ross, one of the most boring women imaginable. Elena marries Howe and later takes Morrissey as a lover. Kidnaped and brutalized by her divorced father as a child, she is emotionally inert. As a woman she seems less unhappy than confused. Her customary response to a direct question is "I don't know." Needless to say, she is enigmatically beautiful...
...Some are destroyed, like Dr. Pedersen's alcoholic wife in Wonderland. Others-like Loretta in them-survive and grow tougher. Elena leaves her furniture and furs to take responsiblity for her own life. But on the book's last page she fecklessly returns to Morrissey, just as he seems to have got clear of their disastrous affair and adjusted himself to his marriage. Is she a temptress, a wanton driven by forces she cannot control? Or does her resolve to lead her own life mean that she will finally not harm Morrissey? The depressing thing is that...
...AMOUR Paul Morrissey-Andy Warhol movies are always something of a stalemate. It is impossible to determine exactly who receives more contempt and abuse, the people in the movies or the ones watching them. L'Amour ("presented" by Warhol, written and directed by Warhol and his protege Morrissey) features the wrecking crew from The Factory, Warhol's New York homestead, transported to Paris, where they scratch and stammer through a plot that might be a low-camp rewrite of La Ronde. Michael (Michael Sklar) and Max (Max Delys) are lovers. Michael, wanting to get married for appearances only...
Investigative reporter Egan has an interesting sidelight on the affair. He said Morrissey clandestinely tape recorded the transactions, that he has heard the tape although he does not know where "it is, and that the two men definitely indentified themselves as CIA agents...